Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1887-10-13
MISSING LINKS.
It takes $2S,0OO,0 900 to keep OF
Woman in silks every wear

| LIE lawyers ices IN the Jake SharL
bribery trial amounted to 100000.
The professorship of the Smithson.
Ian institution pays only $4,000 year
During the past year the nationa
debt of England was decreased S29..
i99,51S.
The latest eccentricity displayed by
Bostonians is liking for hand-painted
| collins.
/ In Alsace-Lorraine the velocipede is
universally used by the foot-service
orderlies.
There are hardly enough ministers
IN Idaho to supply the wants of the
matrimonial market.
A quartz mill, to cost 100000, is
being built at North Boise Idaho, by
IN English company.
One of the prizes given at a recent
progressive euchre party in Boston
was beautiful pug dog.
Type-writing and stenography are
taught young women in the high
| school of Louisville, Ky.
Fire-fies and katydids are articles
| of trade in oriental countries. They
are sold in Japan in little bamboo
cages for cents.
A proposed New Hampshire law
| forbids person to have more than ten
| pounds of brook trout in his posses
sion at one time.
There is beggar's agency in Paris
| which supplies for 2 francs the adj.
| dresses of persons who are known to
| give freely to mendicants.
G.. P. Wright, of Baltimore, has
| been the father of twenty-eight child
rem, twenty-three of whom are living.
| The youngest child is weeks old.
The destruction of human life by
| tigers was greater last year than ever
before. One of these beasts is said to
have killed 1873 persons in three years
A recent estimate places the popu-
| lation of India at 253, S01, 1921. There
are ten million acres of arabic land
| that have not been touched by the
pillow.
The father of Gen. Custer attended
| the soldiers reunion at Adrian, Mich.
| and brought with him horse which
the General rode in some of his cam
paigns.
Mrs. Horace Lewis, of Ketchum,
Idaho, has a young antelope for pet
| The creature follows its mistress at all
times, even going into the kitchen and
watching the cooking.
| Queen Victoria's new book, upon
| which she is now engaged, is said to
be a work embracing the leading ex-
| periences and events of her life. Ii
| will make a three-volume publication.
A Mexican paper says the condition
| of the very poor in the City of Mexico
is most lamentable. Neither Naples
| nor Constantinople in their lowest
quarters can show worse squalor or
more saddening spectacles.
Mr.. Seth Davis of West Newton,
Mass, recently celebrated the Tooth
anniversary of his birth. Gov. Rice
delivered an address, and the Rev. S.
F. Smith, author of MY country, tbs
of thee" read an original poem.
Philadelphia has new delicacy in
the shape of baked tomatoes stuffed
with crab meat, and a sandwich of
one slice of a large ripe juicy tomato,
with a layer of crab meat cooked
creole style, is also much appreciated.
A colored woman in Sunnyside, Ga,
has two Children boy and girl.
The girl is named II Will Arise and
Go to My Father" but calls Ter IL
Willer,' for short The boys name is
Only Begotten Son, in Whom [ Am
Well Pleased" but he is called Only"
4 curious landslip occurred on the
Lancashire and Yorkshire railway not
long ago. A passenger train was
passing Spring Vale station when the
| track and platform sunk two feet, the
| train sinking and rising like a vessel
on the waves. No injury to passea-
| gers resulted.
In Mount Sterling, KY, lives a man
who is the victim of peculiar afflic.
| ton. Last winter he. Howard Will
Hanson, bruised his left leg by falling
down on a slippery sidewalk. Soon
after Justification set in, and the leg is
now as hard IS stone and looks as il
| cut from marble.
When 2 years old son of Mr..
| Rend, of Grcenbush, N. T., showed .
great desire for pipe and when one
| day his father gave it to him, he pulled
away as happily as an old veteran.
| From that time on he has had his
craving for tobacco fully satisfied. He
has never been without his pipe, and
now, at the age of II, she is one of the
strongest and healthiest youths in his
district.
William Snowden died recently near
Brooklyn after ten months of ex-
cruciating suffering. His death re-
suited from injuries received in the
| cane rush between the freshmen and
sophomore classes of Columbia Col
| lege in November. Snowden was one
| of the six cane-holders. In the con-
| test he was thrown down, trampled
| on, and kicked until his body was one
mass of bruises. he was taken home,
| but, despite most careful nursing,
never recovered.
A terrible accident happened to a
man named John Golden, in Newport,
KY, one evening recently. Golden
was an employee at the Dayton nut and
bolt factory. He went and picked up
pair of tongs, and while standing
| Is Ill l.,